Archives for April 2011

Mydex completes significant step on way to new personal data ecosystem

Mydex CIC has successfully trialled a live user-driven data service with external verification of claims. This is a major step towards the creation of the interoperable and standard personal data ecosystem necessary for what has been described as buyer…

Behavioral Targeting: Do. Not. Want.

Just the sheer sound of the phrase sounds repugnant. Targeting? Like I’m some sort of wild game to be hunted down. No. Not hunting ME down, that would be too personal. It’s my behavior. From an article today on Mashable:
Data points amass as you cl…

Tracking Do Not Track at Morris + King

A bit of Context Obviously, this diagram is a little cynical, but not too far off from how we manage personal data online today. But there are a lot of proposals on the table to fix this dilemma. One is Do Not Track which industry sees as something they can self-impose on an *opt-in* basis […]

W3C Privacy and Tracking

April 28-29, 2011 – Princeton, NJ Kaliya Hamlin submitted the PDEC position paper (PDF) to the W3C Privacy and Tracking Event. Mary Hodderattended the W3C event about privacy and tracking. The event was primarily focused on Do Not Track as the only solution, but Mary asked as many questions as possible to open up thinking about a possible Personal Data […]